the singer-songwriter Pau Riba died this Sunday at the age of 73 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, a disease that has forced him to go through the hospital several times since the beginning of the year.
The artist, eternal ‘terrible child’ of the song in Catalan, versatile artist and apostle of the transgression, announced on social media on December 7 his struggle: “After six months of pain and with the doctor of “In October, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He can’t be removed. He’s late, they say. for my part, I managed to start a hyperthermia treatment and a few high-dose vitamin drops at the Khuab Institute, which are very hopeful for us … Although what I liked most was the idea that they would cure me with sound frequencies, for now it is not possible either “.
In recent weeks, Riba has been recording an album with theOrchestra Fireluche at the Soundcloud Studio in Salt. The record work was to be presented at Girona Strenes Festival on the 9th of April.
Born in Palma in 1948, Riba is the author of about thirty LPs (among them, the double ‘Dioptria’, chosen the best album in Catalan in the twentieth century by the magazine ‘Enderrock’) and about fifteen books.